U.S. Customhouse and Post Office - St. Louis, Missouri
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BruceS
N 38° 37.730 W 090° 11.586
15S E 744340 N 4279327
Historic United States Customhouse and Post Office listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1970, located in downtown St. Louis.
Waymark Code: WMK7F
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 08/05/2006
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"Statement of Significance (as of designation - December
30, 1970):
Constructed between 1873 and 1884, this is one of two surviving examples of the
huge Federal buildings in the French Second Empire style designed by Alfred B.
Mullet, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury in the post Civil-War era.
Along with the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, this is
representative of a style important in Federally sponsored architecture of the
period" ~
National Historic Landmarks website
This building had sat vacant since 1975 when a postal branch
moved out of the building. The building's ownership was transferred to the State
of Missouri in 2004. The State had a extensive renovation done to the
building restoring it to its former glory. The building has now opened
with Webster University downtown campus, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Teach for
America and several state administrative offices. The restoration of this
building has also served as a catalyst for other restoration work in neighboring
deteriorating buildings
For a more complete description of this building and its
construction
click here.